My media queue has become so overwhelming that it's reached back around to meaninglessness. There's so many books I want to read, so many albums I want to listen to, and so many movies I want to watch that the order I'd tenuously settled on, the hyper-granular priority level I assigned to each one, has lost all weight and become nothing more than a light suggestion, a probably misheard suggestion whispered into the wind.

Of course, I can't possibly keep track of everything I want to engage with. I don't know every book I want to read, but I do know some of them, and whenever I come across others I'd been interested in I'm reminded that they're on the list! It's a nice feeling.

What book do I read next? What movie do I watch next? These questions have a simple answer: whatever I feel like getting to after what I was getting to is gotten to; simple as.

I'm enjoying Ascendance of a Bookworm, so I might stick with that for a while, but if when I finish this volume I feel like reading something else that's what I'll do. I have so much stuff lined up that they're not lined up at all! They're roughly arranged in an incomprehensible mess that hints at a structure. It's like that joke about horrors behind our comprehension; they're not scary because we can't comprehend them. My TBR isn't daunting, because it's so beyond reason that I can't comprehend it. Gladly, of course, as this allows me to ignore it.

I feel comfortable with this arrangement.

And, I wore shorts again today. Who'd a thunk it, ay?

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Little tip from me: dont attempt structure in these things, it wont make you happy. whenst i was in school, i read the nightwatch series. Basically russian mages battling each other, it was cool. My friend was reading ahead of me. I was faster. i didnt care. i just grabbed another book from the series and read that one. It didnt even not make sense. Thats because it was properly written to catch me up on happening and mechanics again. My friend couldnt believe my sins when i told him.

I think at some point i read all of them. or they just fell into irrelevancy in my brain.

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